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January - July 1998

Wednesday, July 29, 1998

Fifth declaration of the Lacandon Jungle
Raids Against Organized Anti-Fascists In Germany
Update On "radikal"
People's International Conference In Seoul

Tuesday, July 28, 1998

City of Baltimore gets tough on vacant houses
Workers against globalisation...
FREE RADIO BERKELEY Press Release
Free Raphael Ballarin
In the Trenches, July 1998

Monday, July 27, 1998

Pentagon Defends Army School of the Americas

Friday, July 24, 1998

Anarchism Today
Graffiti sprayed on Italian church frescoes
Paging Network Hijacked

Thursday, July 23, 1998

Baltimore Black Panther Fights for Justice

Tuesday, July 21, 1998

Mujeres Libres - The free women of Spain
Update on the Neptune Jade Events
Puerto Rico - Telephone Workers Strike In Critical Moment
28 Food Not Bombs activists arrested in San Francisco
Chiapas Rebel Leader Speaks Out
Mexico hacking threats intensify
Solidarity rally in DC for GM Workers
Israeli Activists Repaint "The Green Line"
300 Landless Brazilians Take 120 tons of food
Farmer rejects genetically engineered crops
Pentagon Denies Nerve Gas Story
FBI Won Exception to Presidential Order Declassifying Secrets

Friday, July 17, 1998

Sans-Papiers hungerstrike
For Russian workers
C.I.A. Worked With Suspected Drug Traffickers, Report Admits [NY Times]
Draft UN War Crimes Treaty Rebuffs US Demands [NY Times]

Thursday, July 16, 1998

GLAAD DENOUNCES "RECRUIT AND CURE" ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN
Ad run by anti-gay hate groups
Ad placed in response to anti-gay ad campaign

Wednesday, July 15, 1998

110,000 Workers Strike in S. Korea
Religious Right Steps Up Anti-Gay Attacks
Special Forces Training Review Sought
Hacking for Human Rights in China

Tuesday, July 14, 1998

Mass Arrests at Uranium Mine Blockade in Australia
26 Days of the Strike Against Pivatization
Eugene - Oregon Association of Broadcasters Demo
Italian anarchist dies
Leonard Peltier: Update from Canada
Former nazi leader beaten in Rome

Monday, July 13, 1998

Rally for Safe Food at Monsanto HQ in St. Louis
ARA members murdered in Las Vegas
Police surfing Internet in search for killers of anti-racist skinheads
Anti-racist skinheads killed
Skinhead slayings expose hatred
Two killings draw focus to skinheads
Police suspect racial motives in murders of skinheads
Anti racism campaign on the streets (Ireland)
Free speech and the litter act
Alberta Strike Solidarity Page
Independence For Puerto Rico! - July 25th Mobilization
'Shielded From Justice' - Police Brutality In The U.S.
S. Korean Workers Stage Rally To Protest Layoffs
PDPR-EPR Information Campaign

Wednesday, July 8, 1998

Report on first day of general strike in Puerto Rico
Microsoft continue to gobble up browser share
First arrests in Britain for pulling up Genetically Engineered crops

Monday, July 6, 1998

Anti-nuke hackers post anti-nuclear message on 300 sites
Human 'lab rat' publishes Internet magazine for 'guinea pigs'

Thursday, July 2, 1998

Wisconsin Anarchist Teen wins flag defecation case
Italian authorities sezie ECN server used by anarchists
Dornan's “Tubthumping” makes waves at Universal Records
Sacco, Vanzetti ordeal haunts longtime advocate [6/18/98 Boston Globe]
EU warns investments may be diverted from U.S states with death penalty

Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Leonard Peltier Suffering, Faces Medical Crisis

Tuesday, June 23, 1998

FCC Steals Equipment from Radio Mutiny
Radio Cedar Tree broadcasts from Berkeley hills
Free Radio Berkeley press release...

Wednesday, June 18, 1998

DISASTER IN BOSTON! Lucy Parsons Center Hit by Flood
(Dis)Connection is Back -- Call for Submissions
NINE HOURS AGAINST GREED
Is Tree-Top Protest Saving Forest? [ABC News.com]

Wednesday, June 17, 1998

LOVE AND RAGE BREAKS UP

Friday, June 12, 1998

Army assault in Chiapas
Jornada on Chiapas attacks
Rebels Reappear in Mexican Town
GODS OF METAL PLOWSHARES SCHEDULED FOR TRIAL
PUMPING UP THE VOLUME - PIRATE RADIO BROADCASTING IN SPRINGFIELD
Australian Anarchist Zine Activate Harassed by Cops

Wednesday, June 10, 1998

East Timorese Seek Independence
Southern Baptists Call On Wives to 'Submit'
Black Man Dragged to Death
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson issues terrorist threat against gays

Tuesday, June 9, 1998

Bank manager claims assault, three protesters arrested at Kingston Day of Direct Action
Follow-up for todays Han Young Strike Support Demo
Baltimore Demos for Han Young Workers
Satirical portraits of Mayor Giuliani-press preview 6/10
Food Not Bombs Western Regional Gathering /RENEGADE/
GET READY FOR FREEDOM Weekend for Mumia! /RENEGADE/
Plowshares Update: PLOWSHARES ARRAIGNMENT /RENEGADE/

Sunday, June 7, 1998

Friends and Comrades Honor ACT-UP/DC's Steve Michael

Friday, June 5, 1998

Direct Action Stops the Gene-Crops - 7 Fields in One Night
Tokyo Airport Foes Strike Again
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERTIAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER RAIDED BY SEATTLE POLICE! 911!

Tuesday, June 2, 1998

"Political Funeral" for ACT-UP/DC founder
The Great Radio Rebellion: The Turned Off Fight Back [Washington Post]

Monday, June 1, 1998

LEONARD PELTIER SUFFERING FROM EXCRUCIATING PAIN
Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network Statement on Sen. Slade Gorton
Resisting the racist Anti-Tribal Campaign
Legal Assistance needed by NLPSN
Deputy Mayor Washington Admits New Vending Restrictions Ban Art, Books, Newspapers and Free Expression From City Streets

Sunday, May 31, 1998

Colman McCarthy reviews The Man They Called Mahatma [Washington Post]
No Rock-and-Rule In Britain Anymore [Washington Post] (quotes Chumba)
Student Sues to Sit Out Pledge of Allegiance [Washington Post]

Thursday, May 28, 1998

Giuliani speaks at art school while artists arrested outside
Montreal: SalAMI arrests: Popovic pleads guilty, is released

Wednesday, May 27, 1998

National Conference: "Workers of the World Wide Web Unite..."
Chile - Anarchist News

Tuesday, May 26, 1998

Police Murders in Chattanooga
Peltier denied parole; 10 yrs more without parole possibility
MONTREAL: 100 arrested as globalisation conference delayed several hrs
Operation SalAMI page
Who is starting forest fires in Chiapas
Action in Danish border against Fort Europe
Indonesia's 'Disappeared'

Friday, May 22, 1998

Bomb damages Barclays branch in Athens
Grace Paley the active voice [Boston Globe]
Nine charged in Prague after violent environmental protest [Nando Net]

Thursday, May 21, 1998

Revolution in Indonesia - Index
Amnesty International Accuses Border Patrol
Nine Charged After Violent Environmental Protest
Various Reports from Indonesia
Geneva Street Party Defies World Trade Organisation
Castro's speech to the World Health Organization
Arrests Follow South Korean May Day Clashes
Indian scientists speak out...and more [/RENEGADE/]
CIA wants abuses files kept SHUT [/RENEGADE/]
Plowshares Update: Gods of Metal Plowshares Action / Court [/RENEGADE/]

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

Wichitans object to ministers' stance against books about children with homosexual parents, vow to donate more books.
Update on the Plymouth 25

Tuesday, May 19, 1998

Study Recommends Condom Emphasis
Rebel Radio [Sonoma County Independent]
NY Post editorial on street artist protests/A.R.T.I.S.T.
Scandinavian Antifascist Victory!
Black Monday for the Russian Economy
TORONTO RTS UPDATE---INJURED PROTESTER STILL IN CUSTODY
Columbus Line preparing legal action against US Dockers Union
WHAT IS MAY DAY'S MEANING FOR TODAY?

Monday, May 18, 1998

Police Raids Against German Anti-Fascists
Activists Disarm B-52 bomber at Andrews Air Force Base
A Report from Reclaim the Streets Toronto
Washington DC demo at the Indonesian Embassy
Toronto - Global Street Party!
Indonesian consulate "bombed"
The Shadow newspaper Interviews "Grandpa Munster" Al Lewis

Friday, May 15, 1998

Holes in Coverage of India's Nuclear Tests

Wednesday, May 13, 1998

Why is Rupert Murdoch spying on public restrooms?
SAC Journalist arrested (Sweden)
Jail Charles Hurwitz
Julia Butterfly Tree Sit-In
Super Heroes Return Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Bullshit [/RENEGADE/]
What is Globalization? [/RENEGADE/]
New disclosure about CIA and Cocaine [/RENEGADE/]
The Devil Children of Ronald Reagan [/RENEGADE/]
3,000 Mexican soldiers train in the US, May 3 [/RENEGADE/]
[FAIR-L] NEWS RELEASE: Media Prefer Conservative Think Tanks
Is Maxxam keeping ABC Julia Butterfly segment from airing?

Monday, May 11, 1998

De Facto life sentence to Osman Murat Ulke
Police launch dawn raid to dismantle rebel government
The EZLN and Indigenous Autonomous Municipalities
Italian Observers Leave Mexico [LA Times]
The Long Arm Of Fujimori In Hamburg
Documents from the Samara strike committee
Andersen and Beyond
Jailed Terrorist Has `No Regrets'
US copyright legislation and the crime of circumvention

Sunday, May 10, 1998

Police Break Up Anti-KKKers in Michigan [ABC News]

Saturday, May 6, 1998

Mid-West Anarchist Picnic 1998 Information
Strawberry's Bitter Taste
Danish mass strike continues into day 9
Lincoln Pulp & Paper Targeted By Earth First! & NFN
Million Marijuana March Kickoff March and Rally
Lower E. Side Gardens Threatened
Looters, Police Clash in Indonesia

May Day 1998 Wrap-up

May Day on the Web
May Day Online Gallery
Report on Bradford MayDay '98
In the Southern U.S.
MayDay Strike in Ontario
TURKEY - 1 MAY

Saturday, May 2, 1998

Lucy Parsons Center Has Moved
For Their Civil Disobedience, the 'Sit-In' Is Virtual [NY Times]
Office of French Embassy in Greece may have been firebombed by anarchists
Update from Chiapas: May 1, 1998
46 Rebel Supporters Arrested in Chiapas
May Day In Berlin
Reclaim the Night Demo in Warsaw
U.S. covert agencies get funding boost

Thursday, April 30, 1998

Anti-Defamation League of of B'nai B'rith uses legal terrorism to force Anarchist Anti-Defamation League to change its name
500,000 on strike in Denmark
NY Times poll finds that 50% of teenagers distrust government [NY Times]
U.S. Supreme Court wants to speed up execution machine [Washington Post]

Wednesday, April 29, 1998

Priista Aggression against Pastors for Peace in Taniperlas
The Friends of Pol Pot [The Nation]
Indonesia's Killers [The Nation]
Mass strike in Denmark

Friday, April 24, 1998

SchNEWS Issue 164, Friday 24 April 1998
Radical direct action news from the U.K.
Radio Mutiny at the liberty bell, 4/22/98
Two swedish anarchists arrested
April 13, 1998: Western Shoshone and Supporters Occupy the Nevada Test Site
War on the Wharfies homepage
Lots of info here on the ongoing Australian dockworkers strike.
Did Photo of Slain Officer Incite Beating? [Washington Post]
Honduran Immigrants Wage Hunger Strike [Washington Post]
Radio's Next Wave? FCC Opens Talks On Licenses for 'Micro' Stations [Washington Post]

Wednesday, April 22, 1998

Honduran executed in Arizona [USA Today]
Pirate Radio Station Targeted by the FCC; Radio Pirates Sail Forth in Protest

Friday, April 17, 1998

America's Secret Police: FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s
Unlicensed radio station sues FCC for right to broadcast

Wednesday, April 15, 1998

Rebels of the Airwaves [New Haven Advocate]
Radio Free America [Time]
2 more free radio stations shut down in Tampa
Dockworkers on strike in Australia [Sydney Morning Herald]
Dockers form live barricade in ports battle

Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Mexico Expels Foreign Rights Activists

Monday, April 13, 1998

Luke Hiken: a workshop on the legal issues in micropower broadcasting {Audio}
Interview with Iowa City Free Radio {Audio}
Sentiment Growing for Freeware [NY Times]
Spy Network Stuns Mexicans [Washington Post]
Latest Chiapas Update: Sunday, April 12, 9:00 pm. EST
Letter to Zedillo on Expulsion of Foreigners
New raid in Chiapas, Mexico
Mexico expels 12 foreigners for "meddling" in Chiapas [Reuter/ABC News}
Mexico expels foreigners from troubled southern state [BBC News]
12 Foreigners Among 21 Arrested in Chiapas Raid {LA Times]
Foreigners taken from Chiapas to Mexico City; 2 photographers beaten by police[NandoNet]
Police arrest foreigners in Chiapas, break up rebel-supporting council [Boston Globe]
Save Organic Standards {Audio}
ODE TO THE NAB/98 {Audio}

Sunday, April 5, 1998

Participate in April 10th electronic civil disobedience in support of Chiapas

Thursday, April 2, 1998

Ford Motor Co Complicit in Argentina Torture
Booksellers Challenge Starr Subpoena
US trained Mexican 'torture squad'

Wednesday, April 1, 1998

NY Zaps call for protest and electronic CD on April 10
Open Letter from Assata Shakur
The death of an imprisoned anarchist in Italy
N.J. to Ask Cuba for Black Panther's Return
Nuclear Fools Day Parade
Large anarchist presence at Jericho '98
Concern At Growth Of Genetically Engineered Foods

Sunday, March 29, 1998

US arrests weapons inspection team
Jericho '98 March - Washington, DC
FCC busts KMAD, 90.5FM, in Jersey City

Wednesday, March 25, 1998

Keep Your Hands Off Assata Shakur!
US massacred 1,000 Somalis [The Observer]
Hunger Strike Victory in Pennsylvania
Plan to Overhaul Anti-Terrorism Strategy Would Boost NSC's Role [WashingtonPost]

Friday, March 6, 1998

Comprehensive activist coverage of the February 21 March and Rally against the U.S. War in Iraq, in Washington, DC
DEFIANT PIRATES PLY THE RADIO AIRWAVES--PRETRIAL RULING PREVENTS FCC CRACKDOWN. A LEADING OUTLAW BROADCASTER HAILS THE DECISION [L.A. Times]
FCC VISITS STEAL THIS RADIO 88.7 NYC
CHUMBAWAMBA North American tour schedule
Chemical War Comes Home to Vermont
Don't Worry, Howard Stern

Thursday, March 5, 1998

*ZAPATISMO NEWS UPDATE*--February 15-21, 1998
Organising & Agitating [Workers Solidarity Movement]
Young, Queer & Proud! [Workers Solidarity Movement]
Building the anti-racist resistance [Workers Solidarity Movement]

Saturday, February 28, 1998

Call for an International Syndicalist Summit in 1999
OHIO POSTCARD: ANTI-WAR ZONE [The New Republic]
We only mention it here because it talks about the role Anti-Racist Action played in the Ohio Town Meeting protest
Illegal stations spice up radio dials [USA Today]
Rights groups aiding rebels, Mexico says [Miami Herald]

Sunday, February 22, 1998

3000 march in D.C. to protest war moves against Iraq
Ronald McDonald Burned in Effigy!
Charges Against 'Interim' Magazine Have Been Dropped
Anti-war protest in Santa Rosa, California
Protesters 'bomb' Washington State National Guard
Leavenworth prisoners speak out - Jericho 98
Day of action: occupiers charged
May 1 Mass Strike Against Ontario's Tory Government
Short news from Zagreb

Thursday, February 19, 1998

Noam Chomsky on new Gulf War
Obituary - Comelius Castoriadis
Montréal Police Arrest Activists Without Warrant

Thursday, February 5, 1998

Mexico rebel supporters hack government home page
War on Wharfies 5 Feb update
NAFTA ... SCHMAFTA ... TAFTA???
Corporate Globalization Factsheet
The Cause of the Unemployed

Wednesday, February 4, 1998

CHUMBAWAMBA EXPLAINS POLITICALLY INCORRECT 'STEALING' FIASCO

Monday, February 2, 1998

Barbie computer software?
6 1/2-Year Las Vegas Hotel Strike Ends
Carter, Gorbachev Join Call To Reduce Nuclear Threat

Sunday, February 1, 1998

International Anarchist congress report
Smaller Spy Satellites May Give U.S. Stealth Capability Over Trouble Spots
EZLN com. on international support
Davos Conference Challenged by 20 Million People
A new Bloody Sunday enquiry

Saturday, January 31, 1998

ARREST OF ANARCHIST N. MAZIOTIS. POGROM AGAINST ANARCHISTS IN GREECE. UPDATED NEWS
Pr. George's Does Mass DNA Testing [Washington Post]
Probe Finds No CIA Link to L.A. Crack Cocaine Sales [Washington Post]
Post article again ignores many important facts.

Friday, January 30, 1998

Kaczynski Writing New Treatise in Jail
NPR's Margo Adler reports on how the anarchist movement views Unabomber Ted Kaczinsky's anti-technology philosophy (requires RealAudio)
Includes interviews with Peter Werbe of The Fifth Estate and John Zerzan.
Italian anarchist arrested in Amsterdam
Update on Toronto Bank Occupation
Threat to jail anti-JSA activist

Thursday, January 29, 1998

A-Infos: News about and of interest to anarchists
Photos from student protest in Canada
Abortion Clinic Explosion Kills One in Alabama
Students occupying CIBC in Toronto
Students occupy major canadian bank
NY ZAPATISTAS SUPPORT PROPOSAL FOR NORTH EAST ZAPATISTA NETWORK

Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Alice Nutter blows up Spice-World
March against Child Labor
Liverpool dockers dispute is over
The ANC and the South African White Right in Mozambique
Appeal by South African Anarchists

Monday, January 26, 1998

Prying eyes were watching UCI's library activist {Orange County Register]
News from working class in Turkey
Worldwide Chiapas Protest Statistics: Version 2.3

Sunday, January 25, 1998

French peasants prosecuted for destroying transgenic maize
Bombs Damage Athens Buildings, Cars
No dark alliance here: CIA delays release of internal contra-cocaine probe but clears itself anyway. [S.F. Bay Guardian]
Reno Orders IG to Withhold Report on CIA-Crack Probe
Green "terror" [S.F. Bay Guardian]
Sharon Cook appeal
German daily on events related to N. Maziotis arrest
WI Mining Bill Gutted in Assembly, Returns to State Senate
Neo-Nazis, Leftists Brawl On Train in Germany [Washington Post]

Saturday, January 24, 1998

"Alpha" Anarchist Weekly on Nicos Maziotis case.
Kathy Acker's 'Complexity' Honored by Memorial Event
Virgin Stores Pull Chumbawamba's Tubthumping From Shelves
UK FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND McDONALD'S UNITE TO 'EXPLOIT' CHILDREN

Friday, January 23, 1998

RASH-1 BONEHEADS-0
French unemployed support
Analysis of the situation in Kazakhstan

Thursday, January 22, 1998

Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski has pleaded guilty. To receive life in prison
Wanted to mount a defense based on his ideological views, but was denied the right to represent himself by the judge.
Alice Nutter of Chumbawamba appears on "Politically Incorrect"
Chiapas Schools Report Card
Help free Khalfani X. Khaldun

Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Anarchy for Anybody site has moved
McLibel documentary (RealVideo required)
Support Lonnie Kobres' defense
Canada, APEC and the RUle of Law
Ward Valley Action Page
Nicos Maziotis still in custody

Monday, January 19, 1998

On arrests of anarchists in Athens, Greece
Montreal anarchist roughed up, jailed by pigs for taking names and badge numbers

Tuesday, January 13, 1998

JUST SAY NO TO THE FBI AND POLICE
Mexico Police Fire on Protesters
Mexico Police Blamed for Role in Massacre
Italians occupy Mexican Tourist Office in Rome
Update From Chiapas: Jan 12th 98
Los Angeles: 800 people come to support the Zapatistas

Tuesday, January 13, 1998

January 12th Demo at Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC
Stop the Massacres! Protestors in San Francisco voice their support for the EZLN and the indigenous people of Chiapas.

Monday, January 12, 1998

U.S. Arms Sales and Military Assistance to Mexico
Chiapas Women Accuse Mexican Army of Beating
EYEWITNESS REPORT ON THE ATTEMPT BY THE MEXICAN ARMY TO ENTER MORELIA
New Solidarity Project:Estacion Libre, Jan 9
Indian general says that anarchists are to be targets of net war
Pictures and accounts from the ACT-Up clean needle protest held last September in D.C. [worth checking out]
Syracuse, NY Joins Chiapas Protests on Jan. 12
Update about Polish hostages in Chechnya
Communique on the situation of the Zapatista movement in Mexico
Worldwide Chiapas Protest Statistics: Version 2.1, 1/11/98

Saturday, January 10, 1998

Resistance Grows to UK Jailings of Radical Journalists
San Francisco Chiapas Protesters Arrested in Civil Disobediance
ACTION ALERT!! STOP THE WAR IN CHIAPAS!
Mexican Army Says Chiapas Bishop Has Rebel Ties
Army Advances in Mexico
Women and Children Bar Mexico Army from Rebel Town
Montana animal rights activist sentenced
U.S. Moves to Shut California Marijuana Clubs

Friday, January 9, 1998

Jane Doe - Holding police accountable for rape
Paperless persons in France
72 UNION LEADERS FIRED IN ATTEMPT TO BUST TELECOM UNIONS

Thursday, January 8, 1998

More States Shifting Welfare Control to McDonald's [The Onion]
EZLN Supporters Block Mexico Stock Exchange, Occupy Radio Stations
New Year Riots In France
Update from Chiapas

Wednesday, January 7, 1998

National Conference on Civil Disobedience
Weekly News Update [excerpts] on Chiapas Massacre
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Chiapas Massacre
Radio Mutiny pirate tour

Friday, January 2, 1998

Jan. 2nd National Day of Action in Support of Chiapas
Break the Blockade of Silence Campaign
Black Planet Radical Books Brings Radical Reading Groups to Baltimore
Pirate radio stations make the feds' hit list [Miami Herald]
Obit: Abraham (Abe) Bluestein
Anarchists kidnapped in Chechenia
Help Radio Segundo Montes in El Salvador
Charges to be Dropped Against APEC Protesters
Free the Gandalf 3
Spain to make up for Franco property seizures [San Jose Mercury]
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Archive of News: 1997